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10.24.07

A not so modest update to email is coming

Posted in News at 9:42 am by Jonathan Greene

Exciting news for Internet Tablet users this am! The email client, widely regarded as the weakest link will soon get a complete overhaul and be replaced by the long awaited Modest project.

Via Maemo-Users:

EMAIL CLIENT

- Modest (open source and based on the Tinymail framework) is going to substitute the current email client that is still being shipped in OS2008. The sources are out there and being refreshed regularly but compile them is not easy at this point.

- We are going to make releases under development through one-click install for public testing and feedback, as we did with the Mozilla based browser and SIP features. The first release will come at the same time as Chinook final and the N810 hit the streets. There will be additional releases until we get the final one.

- About Modest: API for applications in place, IMAP no problem and good integration with popular web based services. Just to make things clear, the address book component is not part of the Modest project.

- Once we release the first version under development we will open the typical channels of communication: garage news, bugs in Bugzilla, developers available through planet blog and maemo-developers list.

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4 Comments »

  1. Khertan said,

    October 24, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Great news !

  2. Quim Gil said,

    October 24, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    There is a typo in the Modest URL.

  3. Jonathan Greene said,

    October 24, 2007 at 11:42 pm

    Thanks for catching Quim - I used the N810 notes app to write this and pasted it into Wordpress… I could not see that %22 business but relinked things so we should be cool

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